Potential Titles: Rocks [category]
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somethingdarkerSee Potential Titles: Rocks - Pretty Ones [category] for gemstones and decorative rocks. The distinction is wobbly and may depend on my opinion of the images I found rather than on anything else.
Alabaster.
Anthracite:
Against the scintillant anthracite of space - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Apatite:
An apatite translucency of winter sky - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Asbestos.
Ashlar:
Ashlar whereon the gales might drum - Thomas Hardy "The Old Workman"
Asphalt.
Asteroid.
Basalt.
Bedrock.
Boulder.
Brick.
Brimstone.
Calcite:
Built a calcite beehive tomb - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Cement.
Chalk.
Cinderblock:
Built of cinderblocks and barbed wire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Cinnabar:
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
And enter glowing mines of cinnabar - James Elroy Flecker "The Second Sonnet of Bathrolaire"
a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Spoons of jade mixing magic cinnabar - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson
Coal.
Cobble/Cobblestone.
Concrete.
Creamstone:
Built of creamstone and enchantment - Bliss Carman "Bahaman"
Feldspar:
Fireworks in fields of feldspar and lace - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
Flint.
Fool's Gold:
All the fool's gold of the world - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Jester" [The Broadway Anthology]
Fossil.
Geology.
Glass.
Granite.
Gravel.
Greenstone:
Greenstone billions of years beneath the trillium - M. Bartley Seigel "Hushful and Still Closer Comes the Red Fox"
Gypsum:
Hiding among the gypsum flakes - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Hematite:
Old bones dipped in molten hematite - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Hade's Throne Room"
Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Keystone:
The keystone of his airy bridge - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"
The Keystone of life's slow-ascending arch - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Paul to Timothy"
Publicity is the keystone in the Arch of Triumph - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
Lava.
Limestone.
Lithosphere:
Lithospheric claws rake into thatched roofs - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]
Lode:
Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"
Loadstone/Lodestone:
The loadstone beckons to the long needle - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson
Loess:
Loess, the wind's fine veil, polished you so bright - Megan Levad Beisner "Foundling"
Magma:
Over plains of magma murk - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Crawling baby of magma and water - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
Marble/Marbled/Marbles.
Meteor.
Mica:
Mica embedded in a mattress of slate - Mary Jo Bang "Hotel Incognito"
gold against the mica sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"
Sparkled scatter of mica and stone chips - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Millstone.
Mineral.
Moonrock:
A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
Natrolite:
Natrolite from the dark stone oft comes peeping - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Basalt" transl. by Charles Leland
Olivine:
Where olivine water washes over gravel & sand - Brian Teare "Sitting River Meditation"
Pebble.
Petrify.
Pitchblende:
hard white bones shot with pitchblende - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Pumice:
The whited pumice of the storm - Walter S. Percy "The Blizzard"
Quarry.
Rock.
Salt
Sand.
Sandstone:
With a sandstone faith still worn - Rebecca G. Biber "Artichoke"
Through the canyons of sandstone and shale - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Shale.
Slate.
Stone.
Strata:
Bursting the strata's mountain waste - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Basalt" transl. by Charles Leland
The weak-hearted crystalline strata - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "Granite" transl. by Charles Leland
Upwards through strata and fountains - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "Granite" transl. by Charles Leland
Talus:
Long canyons opening across fields of talus - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "28 [If you're climbing Cold Mountain Way]" transl. by David Hinton
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Alabaster.
Anthracite:
Against the scintillant anthracite of space - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"
Apatite:
An apatite translucency of winter sky - Claire Millikin "Rock, Paper, Scissors"
Asbestos.
Ashlar:
Ashlar whereon the gales might drum - Thomas Hardy "The Old Workman"
Asphalt.
Asteroid.
Basalt.
Bedrock.
Boulder.
Brick.
Brimstone.
Calcite:
Built a calcite beehive tomb - Eric Ekstrand "Family Solo"
Cement.
Chalk.
Cinderblock:
Built of cinderblocks and barbed wire - Paul Park "Ragnarok"
Cinnabar:
Cinnabars where the flame burns purest - Chris Dombrowski "Trimmings"
And enter glowing mines of cinnabar - James Elroy Flecker "The Second Sonnet of Bathrolaire"
a reduction of mineral cinnabar - Jena Osman "Mercury Rising (A Visualization)"
Spoons of jade mixing magic cinnabar - Pao Chao "In Imitation of 'The King of Huai-nan'" transl. by Burton Watson
Coal.
Cobble/Cobblestone.
Concrete.
Creamstone:
Built of creamstone and enchantment - Bliss Carman "Bahaman"
Feldspar:
Fireworks in fields of feldspar and lace - Bruce Boston "Surreal Fortune"
Flint.
Fool's Gold:
All the fool's gold of the world - Samuel Hoffenstein "The Jester" [The Broadway Anthology]
Fossil.
Geology.
Glass.
Granite.
Gravel.
Greenstone:
Greenstone billions of years beneath the trillium - M. Bartley Seigel "Hushful and Still Closer Comes the Red Fox"
Gypsum:
Hiding among the gypsum flakes - David Bowers-Mason "Phrogger"
Hematite:
Old bones dipped in molten hematite - Nikita Gill "Hekate: Hade's Throne Room"
Rises from bedrock hematite - Claire Millikin "The Incest Doll"
Keystone:
The keystone of his airy bridge - George MacDonald "A Hidden Life"
The Keystone of life's slow-ascending arch - Robert Winkworth Norwood "Paul to Timothy"
Publicity is the keystone in the Arch of Triumph - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"
Lava.
Limestone.
Lithosphere:
Lithospheric claws rake into thatched roofs - Holly Easton "In the Age of Dreams" [Strange Horizons 21 July 2025]
Lode:
Concealing a lapiz lode of heart - Mouna Ammar "The Meaning of Unpacking"
Loadstone/Lodestone:
The loadstone beckons to the long needle - Yang Fang "The Joy of Union" transl. by Burton Watson
Loess:
Loess, the wind's fine veil, polished you so bright - Megan Levad Beisner "Foundling"
Magma:
Over plains of magma murk - Mike Allen "La Donna del Lago"
Solo of magma, baritone of fantasia - Diane Mehta "Landscape with Double Bow"
Crawling baby of magma and water - Khadijah Queen "Erosion"
Marble/Marbled/Marbles.
Meteor.
Mica:
Mica embedded in a mattress of slate - Mary Jo Bang "Hotel Incognito"
gold against the mica sky - Didi Jackson "Fall"
Sparkled scatter of mica and stone chips - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Millstone.
Mineral.
Moonrock:
A mesh of moonrock's lapis soup - Amy King "The Moon in Your Breath"
Natrolite:
Natrolite from the dark stone oft comes peeping - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Basalt" transl. by Charles Leland
Olivine:
Where olivine water washes over gravel & sand - Brian Teare "Sitting River Meditation"
Pebble.
Petrify.
Pitchblende:
hard white bones shot with pitchblende - Amanda Gafford "Tigerlily"
Pumice:
The whited pumice of the storm - Walter S. Percy "The Blizzard"
Quarry.
Rock.
Salt
Sand.
Sandstone:
With a sandstone faith still worn - Rebecca G. Biber "Artichoke"
Through the canyons of sandstone and shale - Ansel Elkins "Native Memory"
sandstone bones are left long under sage - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"
Shale.
Slate.
Stone.
Strata:
Bursting the strata's mountain waste - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "The Basalt" transl. by Charles Leland
The weak-hearted crystalline strata - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "Granite" transl. by Charles Leland
Upwards through strata and fountains - Joseph Victor von Scheffel "Granite" transl. by Charles Leland
Talus:
Long canyons opening across fields of talus - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "28 [If you're climbing Cold Mountain Way]" transl. by David Hinton
Navigation Links:
Go to Potential Titles: Geographic/Landscape Features [category].
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.
